Hello there!

Welcome to Jenny Allsorts, my cheery little blog! Hello! I'm Jenny... illustrator, designer, and generally artsy craftsy person, and this is where I share projects, ideas and such, and natter on about this and that. I love all things stitchy, papery and vintage. Pull up a comfy chair and have a cup of tea!

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January 05, 2010

So here's the new look for the blog, using a little from this, a little from that. I kept the background from Jolly Allsorts but tweaked the blue a bit. The houses are recycled from Allsorts Book House, anyone remember that? I gave them the "felty" treatment and some fun popsy colors. It's making me very very happy looking at the little village sitting up there. I do like color, yes I do! Then I did my best to adjust the font colors in my CSS template,
something I'm still not so sure what I'm doing. But it looks okay, I
think I'll leave it this way for awhile.

August 04, 2009

Today's the day! The release of Blogging for Bliss, a cool new book that is chock full of useful stuff about creating a blog, along with lots of bloggers' profiles and screen shots of blogs. There's a bit about Allsorts in there, along with most all of my favorite blogs, and some new blogs I hadn't discovered yet! Kari has organized a release party, and we're supposed to post a bit of our own blogging story today.

Blog... now that's a word that starts sounding really weird when you use it over and over. Blog blog blog.

Anyway, here is what I have to say about blogging... and bliss.

This is Mildred Ernst, my grandmother. When I was a wee little Jenny, her house was my creative playground, and with her love and encouragement I discovered what I wanted to do, and how I wanted to live. To me, her home was a magical treasure trove... toys, games, dolls, art supplies, musical instruments, every shelf and drawer filled with whatnots from bygone times. She left me to explore, lost in my imagination, or side by side we baked, painted, stitched, crafted, worked in the garden, or made music. She was smart and funny and made me feel like I could do anything I dreamed.

And what does this have to do with blogging you ask? Because the most important thing in the world to my grandmother was making people happy. Not just me, but everyone. I never heard her say an unkind word, or criticize or discourage in any way. She had an enormous circle of friends who loved her dearly. I fall so short of her, but in my own small way, blogging is an attempt to follow that ideal. It may sound sappy, but when I really think about it, Allsorts is just me trying to make people happy, just like she did.

And by the way, her maiden name was Millie Bliss... so I guess you could say I really am blogging for Bliss.

May 20, 2009

Inspired by Claire, Kirsty and many others, I've taken a tumbl into a log... er tumblelog. Now when I'm bopping around the net and find an image, link, quote, or illustration that I likey, I can pop it onto tumblr. I see it serving as a kind of inspiration board, so I dubbed it push-pins. Click here to visit!

June 02, 2008

It was nice to be able to skip a day of posting yesterday, but I caught myself getting anxious around 6 pm when I would normally be writing up my entry. Thanks again to everyone who played along, we enjoyed some great posts, cute projects and a ton of gorgeous photography. Barbara suggested I create a final post listing the participants, as a sort of archive. I think that's a fabulous idea, so... these are all the bloggers who participated in A Post a Day in May: